| 单词 | kept woman |
| 释义 | > as lemmaskept woman b. A woman with whom a person has a romantic or sexual relationship; a female lover, a girlfriend; (also) a mistress; a woman who is supported financially in return for sexual intercourse; esp. in kept woman: see kept adj. 1a. Now colloquial.fallen, fancy-, other, scarlet woman: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart > specifically a female sweetheart or girlfriend lief971 ladya1393 ladyshipa1393 speciala1400 amiec1400 womanc1400 amoreta1425 mistressc1425 paramoura1450 fair ladya1470 girl?a1513 sooterkin1530 Tib1533 she1547 lady-love1568 jug1569 young lady1584 pigeon1592 love-lass1594 lass1596 dowsabel1612 swainling1615 lucky1629 Dulcinea1638 Lindabrides1640 inamorata1651 baby1684 best girl1691 lady friend1733 young woman1822 moll1823 querida1834 sheila1839 bint1855 tart1864 babykins1870 Dona1874 novia1874 fancy-girl1892 girlfriend1892 cliner1895 tootsy1895 dinah1898 best1904 twist and twirl1905 jane1906 kitten1908 patootie1918 meisie1919 bride1924 gf1925 jelly1931 sort1933 a bit (also piece) of homework1945 beast1946 queen1955 momma1964 mi'jita1970 her indoors1979 girlf1991 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy > person > a mistress chevesea700 wifeOE bed-sister1297 concubine1297 leman1297 file1303 speciala1400 womanc1400 chamberer?a1425 mistress?a1439 cousin1470 doxy?1515 doll1560 pinnacea1568 nobsya1575 lier-by1583 sweetheart1589 she-friend1600 miss1606 underput1607 concupy1609 lig-by1610 factoress1611 leveret1617 night-piece1621 belly-piece1632 dolly1648 lie-bya1656 madamc1660 small girl1671 natural1674 convenient1676 lady of the lake1678 pure1688 tackle1688 sultana1703 kind girl1712 bosom-slave1728 pop1785 chère amie1792 fancy-woman1819 hetaera1820 fancy-piece1821 poplolly1821 secondary wife1847 other woman1855 fancy-girl1892 querida1902 wifelet1983 c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 7561 Jn cuntek and slouȝen Hirtan, And ȝulden to Candulek his womman. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Ji.iv A feruent Dialogue full of the affection of a louer with his woman. 1639 J. S. Clidamas 25 Agree to bee my woman, and I will consent to bee thy man. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 13 Oct. (1972) VII. 320 The Duke of York..leaves off care of business, what with his woman, my Lady Denham, and his hunting three times a week. 1729 J. Disney View Anc. Laws vii.146 §ix Athalaric..Directed, that if the kept Woman were a Free-Woman, she and her Children should be delivered to the Wife in Servitude, or perpetual Slavery. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. x. 75 I again put it to him, Whether he adhered to his resolution of parting with his woman? 1810 S. Green Romance Readers & Romance Writers III. xxv. 218 They agreed to let the handsome and dashing Mr. Harrington, who could never keep to one woman for one month, enjoy himself with every yielding fair-one, that might chance to please him. 1858 Lancet 27 Feb. 226/2 A well-spoken person,..formerly domestic servant, was seduced, and lived for some time as a kept woman. 1889 W. H. Herndon Let. 5 Jan. in E. Hertz Hidden Lincoln (1940) 233 Speed..was keeping a pretty woman in this city, and Lincoln, desirous to have a little, said..‘Speed, do you know where I can get some?’ 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. vii They tell me Elderson keeps two women. 1953 R. Lehmann Echoing Grove 80 ‘I didn't realize she was so completely your kept woman.’ ‘She wasn't,’ he said unprotestingly. 2008 New Yorker 28 Jan. 23/3 Le Monde omitted any reference to the President and his woman from at least one front page last week. < as lemmas |
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